A Parent's Guide to Baseball & Softball


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A parent can make a postive difference in helping a child grow and maximize this experience. You will find lots of useful advice to help your child.




Parents Guide To Travel Ball


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IF YOU ARE THE PARENTS OF A CHILD PLAYING TRAVEL BASEBALL OR SOFTBALL "PARENTS GUIDE TO TRAVEL BALL," IS A MUST READ! It offers a candid and sometimes humorous insight into the "Pros & Cons" of youth baseball and softball. "Parents Guide to Travel Ball" will change the way readers perceive travel sports. Sports are known to help build character. Sometimes, in Travel Ball, they reveal it! Youth travel sports offer a glorious time for youngsters, a time of innocence, and a process to fulfilling their dreams. It teaches how to overcome heartbreak and disappointment. Youthful dreams are spurred on by ambition. However, the kid's games are often ruined by overzealous parents, who are often blinded by their own ignorance. Some adults are determined to make the business of the game just as important as the game itself. For every Little League or Travel Ball parent who shouts obscenities at the umpire or coach, there is the team's smallest player standing in right field scared silent, and hoping the ball is not hit to him. A little kid can throw and catch a baseball or softball ball long before he or she can properly shoot a basketball or throw a perfect football spiral. Thus, the emergence of the early age of kids desire to play baseball and softball. Parents can obtain a better understanding to as to where their $$$ dollars $$$ go in Travel Ball. Make no mistake, with Travel Ball "you pay, you play!" Share unbelievable and fascinating stories of "crazed" parents, coaches and fans earning their place in Travel Baseball and Softball lore. Coaches can get crazy, too! The game always begins with pitching. When all goes well for the pitcher, everyone enjoys it, except the batter! The pitcher is very likely to be the coach's son or daughter. A kid's message to his or her parents might say: "I am just a kid. The umpires are human. My coach is a volunteer. It's just a game. No athletic scholarships will be handed out today." Enjoy the game and "Let the kids play!"










Tee League to Teen Age--


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Teach'n Baseball & Softball Handbook/Guide for Parents & Coaches


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This is a practical handbook and guide for parents and coaches that want to help their kids become a better baseball or softball player. It has 300 individual pictures, illustrations and diagrams to show you what to do. It covers all the basics that players will need to become a good baseball or softball player. It is complete with history, playing field size, new parent orientation, training games to play, strategies, stair step training guides, equipment used and a glossary of baseball and softball terminology.




The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Tee Ball


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Each spring, Tee-ball introduces millions of boys and girls to "America's pastime" --and introduces their parents to the joys (and nightmares) of coaching first-time players. Filled with expert advice and tips on creating order from chaos, Coaching Tee-Ball is the solution to every baffled parent's predicament, offering the new coach a total approach to keeping kids involved, motivated, and having fun.




Teach'n Baseball & Softball Handbook/Guide for Parents & Coaches


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This is a practical Handbook for beginning youth Baseball and Softball coaches, and parents. It has 247 individual pictures and 54 illustration variations to look at. All the skill activities and drills are numbered for easy reference between coaches and parents. Complete with diagram, illustration, and explanation for each one. It covers all the fundamentals you will need to get started in youth Baseball and Softball. It also has Baseball history, strategies, glossary, equipment information, stair step learning guide, training games to play, safety and injury information, and many plays to run to get your team started.




Fast Pitch


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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a challenging and heartwarming coming-of-age story about a softball player looking to prove herself on and off the field. Shenice Lockwood, captain of the Fulton Firebirds, is hyper-focused when she steps up to the plate. Nothing can stop her from leading her team to the U12 fast-pitch softball regional championship. But life has thrown some curveballs her way. Strike one: As the sole team of all-brown faces, Shenice and the Firebirds have to work twice as hard to prove that Black girls belong at bat. Strike two: Shenice’s focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending—and family-name-ruining—crime may have been a setup. Strike three: Broken focus means mistakes on the field. And Shenice’s teammates are beginning to wonder if she’s captain-qualified. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family’s past—and fast—before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever.




Amazing Baseball Tips


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This book offers a wealth of baseball and softball knowledge intended to be shared with coaches, parents, and players to help them have a well organized team while making the season fun, memorable, and instructional for young players. Many new coaches are parent volunteers who may have knowledge of the game, but applying their knowledge to teaching, capturing the attention of the whole team, keeping chemistry among parents, coaches, and the players, are just a few of the challenges that come with being a coach. "Coaches are roll models who must keep the perspective that the game is for the kids". At youth levels, we are teaching much more than the science of baseball. We are teaching sportsmanship, teamwork, respect for others, self respect, and "how to win and lose with dignity." This book is intended to help youth programs build an annual structured player draft, so all teams at each age level can be selected fairly and competitively each year, resulting in fair and balanced competition. From the first team practice, to the season ending party, the contents of "Amazing Baseball Tips" will allow you to be certain that all of your players and parents request you as their coach for years to come!!! Practice drills, teaching techniques, coaching philosophy, the basics of pitching, fielding, hitting, bunting, base running, defensive strategies, choosing your line-up and defense, calculating stats, and most importantly...